AI Mastery

“I used AI to transform health data and lived experiences into songs and a visual podcast”

This Mastery is a double PhD in AI.
And I showed up with the emotional courage of a medical clown… and the technical skills of a child who still needs help to tie her shoelaces.
I am not tech-savvy. I don’t build systems for fun. And I certainly don’t get excited about dashboards. I get stressed with tech and literally my computer shuts down. 
Yet, I can sit beside someone who is actively dying, listen deeply to their story, share a laugh and even sing them into peace, improvise poetry and play the fool in an ICU and I can hold a family through the worst moment of their lives. Code Blue, Orange, Black are hospital codes are codes I am familiar with - but drop me into computer codes, layered platforms, automations, AI workflows, and my blood pressure skyrockets.
So saying that the AI Mastery was intellectually stretching – is an understatement. There were moments my brain felt like it was about to explode and I did not understand a single word. I was in tears, felt like a total failure and I wanted to quit. That is precisely where the shift happened. The community of AI whatsappers, our host Ileana, support with Vyk and Rui, didn’t let me shrink. “Just take one thing,” they said. And from the beginning, Vishen’s voice was clear: you do not need everything – just take you need and leave the rest. That permission and their support changed everything (and the replays where I could watch at my own speed - slow)
I’m a medical clown. I work with people of all ages who are suffering — navigating illness, in crisis, some actively dying. My work is about restoring dignity, joy, and authorship in the hardest chapters of life. So instead of drowning in tools, I decided what expanded my impact.
 The first breakthrough was personal. I began uploading food logs, photos of meals, and blood work results — mine and my husband’s. We had both been navigating health challenges and specialist visits. Instead of feeling intimidated by data, we began seeing patterns. We adjusted habits, became conscious, stabilized weight, and markers improved. But more importantly, we felt agency return. For two people who support others through health crises, reclaiming our own health was powerful.
Then came music — something I never expected. With ChatGPT shaping language and SUNO shaping sound, I began writing songs rooted in lived experiences, real stories, and authentic emotion. For someone who once found copy-paste stressful, this felt like wizardry. But it wasn’t about tech. It was about medicine. 
Story is medicine. 
Through these tools — and later through NotebookLM — I began shaping narratives that could become songs, podcasts, living legacies. Not just in hospital rooms. For anyone who wants to remember who they are beyond circumstances.
And then life decided to test the alignment. I was excited to be part of the special 50 cohort for the first Mindvalley Certified Manifesting Coach Mastery in January 2026 in Seville, Spain with Vishen, Regan and Ajit. 
36 hours before my flight, I had a cycling accident and x-rays showed fractured my kneecap. Cancelling never even crossed my mind. But Lofty Questions that I learned from Vishen came to mind: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the doctor on a Saturday night made a house call? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the right people showed up at the right time? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I got on that plane and got bulkhead seat, even though it was a sold out flight? And thus started the 24-hour journey from Auroville, India to Madrid, in a wheelchair, not being able to put weight on my leg, my knee locked straight and traveling alone.
Only when I returned did I realized the gravity of the situation. Using NotebookLM and AI tools from the program, I created a visual podcast of the entire journey — the injury, the questions, the alignment, the training. When I shared it, many people were deeply moved. They weren’t responding to technology. They were responding to the refusal to contract and the power that AI had to create a vision story board and podcast.
That’s what this program gave me. Not just tools — amplification. Structure for creativity. Systems that strengthen imagination instead of stifling it. Rui, Ileana, the facilitators, and especially the community created a container where even someone who felt like a kindergarten student could grow into real fluency.
As a medical clown, my mission has always been to bring joy, laughter, love, and deep caring into the hardest places, be it hospital rooms or war torn areas. Now I can do that with imagination — and intelligent systems — working alongside me. There is so much I did not master, but what I learned is and am applying is changing lives of individuals, families, communites and even doctors
And perhaps that is the real miracle — not that I mastered AI, but that I refused to shrink in front of it. I walked in feeling like a beginner and walked out expanded. Not louder. Not flashier. But more precise, more powerful, more aligned. This program didn’t turn me into someone else. It amplified who I already am — and gave me the tools to serve at a level I could not have reached alone.

Fif Fernandes

Clown

Chennai, India

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